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In Defence of Lives and Property. Penzig
In Defence of Lives and Property. Penzig


 
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The days of bushranging in the Australian colonies were, coincidentally, a period of major innovation in the fields of ballistics and small arms manufacture. As a result, the type and complexity of weaponry that was used by both villains and those set in pursuit of them in Australia, is a veritable melting pot of firearms technology. Within this text, Edgar F. Penzig has assembled photographic and other documentation of the weapons at large in the Australian Goldfields and environs from the 1850s to the 1880s, and the people who put them to good (or bad) use. Images include the "royalty" of Australian bushrangers, from Ned Kelly to Bold Ben Hall and the men who brought them - often anonymously, as far as History is concerned - to justice. The firearms shown here are mainly of the percussion cap variety, as that was the new technology of the time, along with their required accoutrements - powder horns, cleaning kits, holsters etc. Along with these are a range of fighting blades, Bowie knives brought to this country by American gold-hunters and "ladies knives" for self-defence, with ivory handles all the way from Sheffield in England.

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